Quote Originally Posted by hotdamjam View Post
Im going to relate the astral timer on BLM to the songs for bard. I don't think it was a timer issue, they just added the potential for bards to cast their songs without needing a target. If the devs were worried about fight design + strict timers, they would have made this bard change ages ago.
They explicitly said that the BLM changes were made to accommodate faster DDR in fights.